Cost of Implementing mHealth in Community Mental Health Settings: External Versus Internal Facilitation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to compare the costs of two implementation models for the mobile health (mHealth) intervention FOCUS in community mental health settings. The external facilitation (EF) approach uses a hub-and-spoke model, in which a central specialist provides support to clinicians and clients at multiple agencies. With the internal facilitation (IF) approach, frontline clinical staff at each center are trained to serve as their organization's local specialists.

Methods

Financial and economic cost data were collected in the context of a hybrid type 3 effectiveness-implementation trial by using a mixed-methods, top-down expenditure analysis with microcosting approaches. The analysis compared the incremental costs of both models and the costs of successfully engagin

SUBMITTER: Levin CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11124360 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature